Luke Barats and Joe Bereta are at it again on YouTube, this time lip-synching over footage of chicken-dancing at a Barenaked Ladies concert in Everett and several snips of those Diet-Coke-and-Mentos pseudo-scientists at work. Plus

THE OVAL OFFICE
At the chic little sister of the ultra-popular White House Grill, the compact bar area is sufficient for shaking up a host of concoctions, such as the most popular martini, the "Dirty Monica." The grapes-and-chees

by Joel Smith & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & A & lt;/span & year ago it wouldn't have surprised many Spokanites if they'd gone to bed one night and awakened in Greenwich Village. According to real estate developers, according to the press, according to the woman

THE ABANDONED
Anastasia Hille is a young woman who learns she's just inherited a house -- in the middle of nowhere. When she arrives, she's joined by a man who may or may not be related to her, and they both face some wet, scary thing

DINING Spring Greens
& lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & I & lt;/span & had a burger at MIZUNA the other day. Now having a burger for lunch is not unusual, although this was a particularly fine burger -- ground sirloin blended with

BECAUSE I SAID SO
When perpetually single mom Daphne (Diane Keaton) makes it her mission in life to find Mr. Right for her somewhat flighty youngest daughter, Milly (Mandy Moore), there is no pleasure to be found, only guilt. The

by Kevin Taylor and Doug Nadvornick & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & S & lt;/span & o what parallel universe would you be in if you fell off your bike and nobody believed that's how you got a shiner because, you see, there were these white-hot rumors that said you r

by Michael Bowen & r & & r & Half Nelson & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & F & lt;/span & or movies that earn only $2.7 million at the box office, a release on DVD is practically a premiere. Now lots of people will start seeing Half Nelson, the dual story of a middle school t

& lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & W & lt;/span & hat if they covered the arts the same way they do the Super Bowl? Announcers would do pre- and post-game analysis; there'd be multiple camera angles and locker room interview

by LUKE BAUMGARTEN, MICHAEL BOWEN AND ED SYMKUS & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & P & lt;/span & ut an arts editor and two film critics from opposite coasts (Ed lives in Boston) into the same Oscar chat room, and sparks will fly. Much of the following will make us lo

By Ted S. McGregor Jr. & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & D & lt;/span & on't underestimate the power of words. That's the message of Frank Luntz's new book, Words That Work. To prove his point, Luntz takes you back to early 1994, when he was on a walk with Newt Gingr

by Anthony Stassi and Luke Baumgarten & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & I & lt;/span & n case you don't know, the RAWK FINAL FOUR is an annual competition among 20 high school-age bands from the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area. In the past five years, it has developed a r

& lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & L & lt;/span & ast week I whined about the multi-platinum stranglehold major labels have on the Grammys. Then I tried to make lemonade out of those profit-driven lemons, suggesting the award

& lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & A & lt;/span & fghan Ambassador Said Tayeb Jawad will speak at the World Affairs Council of Spokane on March 1. Jawad spoke on the phone recently with The Inlander's Doug Nadvornick and

by Ed Symkus & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & J & lt;/span & ay Leno is annoying. The first time he popped up in a movie playing himself -- Dave in 1993 -- the idea was fresh and funny. Then he did it in Wayne's World 2 and in Major League II and then it became a habi